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Good, yes, this is an issue in intellectual history that you might become helpful with.

I got this out of responding to nineteenth-century academia. It is the tendency to "re-ify", in the sense...

I don't think it was meant as an etymology, but an equivalent character.

I was unaware of it as a separate legend; this is how it appears in the Mandaic appropriation of 130 Middle Persian terms:...

No, it doesn't.

It does, in intellectual history, in the development of ideas and language.

All I am trying to do is stack them in order. Such as, ca. 300 B. C. E., Jewish sources reduce a...

The typical Mandaic spelling is Anush -- the Semitic figures are always noticeable. I just discovered that "Iranian equivalent", which is the riddle, how "foreign" concepts are applicable to "our"...

Some of this stuff I know very well, and some of it is new discoveries...and here is something very simple that says much.


Part of the significance of Enoch is that in Judaism and Christianity,...

The normative view is that the Aramaic New Testament was translated from Koine Greek in the 400s. It kicked out Revelation.

By "Middle Eastern", do you mean Thomasene? Or is there a credible...

Yes! That is the whole point.

Mandeans are such a "meld" that some scholars believed they were simply Iranian/Mesopotamian and "imported" Semitic culture.

The layering of Avestan can very...

Here is one more caveat why I would say to take "demonology" such as in Enoch with a grain of salt.


I started noticing that "demons" in Christianity did not make sense in Greek.

The sense of...

That is good it appears there is some interest in the fact it is the Book of Enoch that is complete in Ethiopia.


Here's the intrigue.

According to the Mandeans, Enoch was operating through...

This is good, it reflects how a "forum" ought to work. Like a debate, questions followed by questions, milling it down so we understand each other better.

We are bound to disagree on a few minor...

I think there is a way to compare apples to apples here.

The Sheba of Yemen originates at about the 12th century B. C. E.. And so we are going to take on the issue of spoken tradition versus...

Here is where we are at loggerheads.

I would not call that remotely reliable.

Why not? Because Acts of the Apostles is a complete forgery.

Suspending disbelief for a moment, you couldn't...

Is there any physical evidence of this?

Or, rather, I would say that is entirely impossible.

Sheba was an associate of Solomon.

It is only after them that Elijah "discovered" Yhwh, ca. 900...